The Plainsman
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Movie Reviews of The Plainsman
Movie Review: RUN OF DeMILLE !
Summary: 3 Stars
This film is NOT a DeMille great - It becomes quite tedious in fact, after the first 40 min's. - due in no small part to Jean Arthur's atrocious miscasting and annoyingly whiney voice (what on earth was her appeal?). James Ellison (of the very great & crazy THE GANG'S ALL HERE) is totally absurd as Buffalo Bill. And poor Cooper seems ill at ease with the silly script.
One can usually count on DeMille to "deliver the goods", here he delivers the not so goods. And there is'nt even a "bath scene"!
Movie Review: The Plainsman
Summary: 5 Stars
While this film highly historically inacurate, it's still such a classic flim from a magical era of Hollywood.Movie Review: Just enjoy the story - and the music.
Summary: 5 Stars
Plenty has been written above about historical inaccuracies in this epic DeMille production; and enough people have told you to just enjoy the fine casting and story telling. Follow their advice. You also may want to keep an ear open for the music. Like so many movies of the era, the soundtrack was written by an American symphonic composer; many of whom did film work to keep food on the table. George Antheil called himself the "Bad Boy of Music" in his autobiography. But far from his compositions that made some audiences shudder, Antheil's score for "The Plainsman" is delightful. This and his soundtrack for "The Pride and the Passion" show how wonderfully diverse the composer could be. I do wish the music could be a bit more "prominent" as it is in "Pride and Passion."Movie Review: Obscure battlefield accurately depicted
Summary: 3 Stars
As someone who has actually been to the hard-to-find Beecher's Island battlefield site (in the badlands of NE Colorado), I was pleasantly amazed to note how accurately the terrain is depicted in "The Plainsman." I have been to the sites of other notable Indian fights, including both the Fetterman Massacre and Little Big Horn, and although distinctive in their own ways, they are basically just dusty hills in barren grasslands. Beecher's Island was different. It occured near a rare shady spot along a "river" which now is usually nothing but a dry shallow gulch running through some private grazing land; at the time of Major Forsyth's engagement with the Cheyenne under Roman Nose the Arikara River was a formidable obstacle with a few spits of sandy ground--the "island"-jutting up in the middle. At one end of the gulch/river bed there is a bluff some fifty feet or so high from behind which the Cheyenne formed, launched their charges, and rallied. At the summit of the bluff lies Roman Nose, killed in the battle, his lonely grave marker still (as of the mid-1990s) faithfully tended by unknown locals. The "island" itself looked completely unlike any other battlefield of the Plains Indian Wars, being tiny, made of sand, and strewn with dirftwood, which Forsyth and his little band formed into a sort of breastworks.
Almost all of this terrain is faithfully recreated in "The Plainsman." Obviously DeMille didn't shoot this in the Colorado Badlands; there was a contemporary pencil sketch in Harper's Weekly, and perhaps they based the scene on that. Whatever the reason, I was impressed. Now, if only they had had the Buffalo Soldiers rescue Forsyth's party, as they did in reality (a monument to them is present at the battlefield). . . .
I would be curious to know if anyone else has some insight into this?
The three stars are a compromise: 4 for entertainment value, 2.5 for historical accuracy.
Movie Review: western classic
Summary: 5 Stars
it is a classic western with legendary western
characters such as wild bill hickock, calamity jane,
george custer, and buffalo bill cody. it is also
one of the better films with gary cooper where his
natural charm comes through. it does not disappoint
fans of westerns.